I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Let your gift of positive influence to be roused and spread like a wildfire from the east to the west and from the south to the north. All nations are waiting for it.

In you, she saw hope.”“You mean she saw his next meal.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice love passion.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

I was against it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] once , it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.

I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.